HILLARY CLINTON WAS A NATIONAL SECURITY DISASTER AS SECRETARY OF STATE: That seems to be the emerging consensus among military intelligence experts willing to go on the record about the damage done to national security by Clinton’s use of an unsecured home-brew email server to do official business. Calling for Clinton to “step down” from the presidential race is Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.), who was President Obama’s head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Richard Pollock:

“Flynn and other high-ranking former intelligence officials told TheDCNF they are alarmed that some of the nation’s most highly classified documents contained in a secretive program called the Special Access Program (SAP) were transferred to Clinton’s unclassified home server.

“The documents ‘had to be moved off electronically or removed out of the secure site physically, then it had to be put onto an unclassified email system,’ Flynn said. ‘Someone who does this is completely irresponsible, but totally unaccountable and shows a streak of arrogance to the American public that is unworthy of anyone thinking they can run for President of the United States.’

“’This is unbelievable,’ Flynn said. ‘I don’t think anybody should be talking about her being potentially the next President of the United States.’”

PAGLIA: “Sexism has nothing to do with it”

Despite emergency efforts by Gloria Steinem, the crafty dowager empress of feminism, to push a faltering Hillary over the finish line, Sanders overwhelmingly won women’s votes in every category except senior citizens. Last week, when she told TV host Bill Maher that young women supporting the Sanders campaign are just in it to meet boys, Steinem managed not only to insult the intelligence and idealism of the young but to vaporize every lesbian Sanders fan into a spectral non-person.

Steinem’s polished humanitarian mask had slipped, revealing the mummified fascist within. I’m sure that my delight was shared by other dissident feminists everywhere. Never before has the general public, here or abroad, more clearly seen the arrogance and amoral manipulativeness of the power elite who hijacked and stunted second-wave feminism.

Read the whole thing.

EVERYTHING OLD IS OLD AGAIN: Clinton has a major honesty problem after New Hampshire.

(Via Steve Green, who tweets, “Headlines from 1992.”)

ACADEMICS LOVE HIGH TAXES FOR OTHERS: NY Times: The Academic Support For Bernie Sanders’ Proposed 73% Top Tax Rate.

Meanwhile, I have an “open borders” proposal for the GOP Congress: Crowd-pleasing legislation requiring state schools to offer in-state tuition to any student who declares residency in their state. Because borders are just arbitrary lines. People first!

WATERGATE’S CARL BERNSTEIN ON HILLARY: “The vast right-wing conspiracy didn’t put the server in her damn closet. She’s going to have to get by this thing, and she’s going to have to acknowledge a terrible misjudgment it seems to be here.”

Related: Spillage: Up to 30 accounts on Hillary server interacted with top-secret data.

More: “When Hillary accidentally hits Reply All, she doesn’t muck around.”

BEN SHAPIRO on How Attitude Trumped Conservative Thought:

On Monday, grassroots Republican favorite Donald Trump repeated the phrase when an audience member called Ted Cruz a “p—-.” He came to this conclusion after determining that Cruz wasn’t sufficiently gung-ho about waterboarding possible terrorists. Asked to define conservatism at the last Republican debate, Trump stated, “I think it’s a person who doesn’t want to take overly risks. I think that’s a good thing.”

On Tuesday, establishment Republican favorite columnist David Brooks of The New York Times wrote a column called “I Miss Barack Obama.” In it, he pilloried Senators Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and lamented that Obama “radiates an ethos of integrity, humanity, good manners and elegance that I’m beginning to miss.” In October, Brooks defined conservatism thusly: “conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible.”

Neither of these definitions are correct, of course. But the fact that Trump and Brooks largely agree on the definition of conservatism while fighting each other tooth and nail demonstrates why conservatism is losing.

Read the whole thing, though missing from the article is the damage done by George W. Bush; as good a man as he personally is, the notion of “compassionate conservatism” (read: “big government conservatism”) and statements such as  “We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move” (ditto) did much to damage the brand of conservatism. They led inexorably — or perhaps sprang from — what Shapiro describes as the idea that “At some point, Republicans forgot that their job was to determine the best face for a conservative philosophy, and instead substituted the face for the philosophy. The conservatism simply fell away.”

ONE ANCIENT COMMUNIST DESERVES ANOTHER: ‘Berned’: NBC Says Harry Belafonte Will Endorse Sanders.

Belafonte is 88, Sanders is 74; Hillary is 68. Democrat politics is just one big youth movement these days.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, IVY LEAGUE RACISM EDITION: Harvard med students demand diversity, but no more Asians please.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ex-school lunch lady admits raping 15-year-old.

SHARK SANDWICH: ‘In my defense I was watching people being served dinner’: MSNBC host Chris Hayes accidentally calls Democratic New Hampshire winner ‘Bernie Sandwich.’

ROGER SIMON: Past Time for the GOP to Go Hard for the Black Vote.

“I’m talking to you, Donald Trump,” Roger adds.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. GOP establishment incompetent in fighting for ITS OWN SURVIVAL.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Due Process For Me But Not For Thee.

There’s another sexual assault accusation in Liberal Land, this time against someone who trains college administrators on how to handle sexual assault accusations.

Jason Casares, the deputy Title IX director at Indiana University and current president-elect of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, was accused of sexual assault by fellow ASCA board member Jill Creighton. Creighton was elected president of the group for the 2016-2017 term.

Creighton wrote in a lengthy letter last Wednesday that Casares “took advantage of me after I had had too much to drink” during a conference in Texas. She filed a criminal complaint with local police back in December.

“I also could not stand the hypocrisy of Jason parading his expertise on Title IX, knowing how he had behaved with me,” Creighton wrote. . . .

Casares is still being investigated by the police over Creighton’s accusations, but an independent investigation performed for the ASCA cleared him of wrongdoing. And this is where some of the real hypocrisy comes into play.

The ASCA hired an independent investigator from a Texas law firm to conduct an investigation into Creighton’s claims. The investigator who was selected had “experience in investigating allegations of misconduct of non-profit board members as well as experience investigating the nature of the allegations in the received complaint,” according to a letter the ASCA sent to its members on Thursday.

The investigator “determined that Ms. Creighton’s claims could not be substantiated,” so the complaint was resolved in Executive Session.

This investigation was fairer than what accused students get at colleges and universities across the country. Most schools have someone like Casares — a university employee — conduct the investigation. These employees are under pressure from the federal government to find students responsible for sexual assault, no matter what the evidence suggests.

The standards are always different for the nobility than for the serfs.

PIVOT TO ASIA UPDATE: “North Korea Orders South Out of Kaesong Border Factory, Seizes Assets”

North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland — part of Kim Jong Un’s ruling Workers’ Party — said in a televised statement that Pyongyang “will deport all South Korean workers as of 5 p.m. [3:30 a.m. ET]. We will freeze all South Korean assets including factory facilities, goods and all others and those being deported may only take their personal belongings.”

The fiery statement also called the South’s shutdown of the plant a “dangerous declaration of war” and contained crude insults against South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye, calling her a “confrontational wicked woman” who lives upon “the groin of her American boss,” according to The Associated Press.

Say what you will about Kim Jong-un, but at least he makes an entertaining press release.

NEW HAMPSHIRE WINNERS AND LOSERS: “Nationalism and socialism: two great tastes that go great together! Honestly, I can’t see what the issue is in having a populist insurgency driven by anger over perceived national humiliation and economic insecurity. Indeed, if only you could combine these two movements into one uber-political party that could just blitz right through the primaries and the general, then we’d see some real change.”

Heh, ineed. ™

IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING? Democrat Russ Feingold “shares our commitment to high-quality pubic education from pre-kindgergarten through college and our serious concern about America’s student loan debt crisis,” read Feingold’s endorsement by the American Federation of Teachers’ Wisconsin chapter, as it was originally quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Roll Call leans towards blaming the errors on the original AFT press release; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has since corrected both typos without a note that the post had been updated. But then, both organizations long ago abdicated their original functions to go full-on socialist justice warrior in an effort to prop up the leftwing establishment in Wisconsin.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Berkeley Plans For “New Normal.” You know it’s serious because they’re cutting back on staff hiring as well as faculty! “Controlling staffing levels and adopting staff hiring ‘discipline’ that mirrors that for faculty positions.”

Plus: “Due to declining state funding and other factors, Berkeley expects an operating budget deficit of 6 percent this year, or about $150 million. Officials say that while that is manageable in the short term, trend lines call for proactive sustainability measures.”

One way to enhance your sustainability — quit spending money on your Campus Sustainability Program.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: How to Win the White House and Save the World: Don’t Talk of Reagan. Talk Like Reagan.

AND THEN THERE WERE SIX.

THIS WRITER ENTIRELY POWERED BY: Death Wish coffee.  It will tell you how bad the addiction is, that I need three cups to function.

AND WE’LL CALL IT A NIGHT, WITH MY SHOCKED FACE: Syria’s bleeding even more thanks to John Kerry’s peace ploy.

THE SEVENTIES CALLED: Great Power Pivot: U.S. Shifts Focus to War With China and Russia.

YOU MESSED UP, YOU TRUSTED THEM: Yellen: Persistent economic weakness could slow rate hikes.  Summer of recovery #8 coming up!  The future  present   mirage is so bright I got to wear shades.

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN BLOOMBUG’S NEIGHBORHOOD: Bloomberg May See Opening in New Hampshire Primary Results.  I can see his campaign platform “No more Big Gulps!” or perhaps “I can see gun confiscation from here.”  And the worst part?  He’s better than the two already in the race.

IF YOU THINK A FIRST RATE MILITARY IS EXPENSIVE, WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT A SECOND RATE ONE WILL COST US: Sooner of later the butcher’s bill comes due. The Tools of Power.